Common types of injuries are.

What happens when a basketball hits your head. It was so hard I fell. 13 2010 -- Basketball was going to be Niki Popyers ticket to a good college-- until multiple concussions left her on the bench and unable to finish tests homework or even a full day. Well I wasnt playing but the long story is.

That twisting and pulling can cause brain circuits to break or lose their insulation or get kinked up and that shuts off parts of the brain. Head injuries are all too common with almost 250000 admissions to hospitals in the US each year and an estimated 50000 deaths. Even though the ball might have hit the tip of your finger the injury actually occurs in the knuckle because thats where the brunt of the trauma is absorbed.

A concussion happens when you get hit in the head hard enough to cause a transient disturbance of brain function or causes your brain not to function normally. First aid for head injuries. However the explosive movements and constant turning and cutting can make basketball a sport riddled with potential foot and ankle injuries.

Symptoms can be broken down into four categories. A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury TBI that happens when the brain is jarred or shaken hard enough to bounce against the skull. In general accidentally hitting your head in the course of everyday activities is non-major traumato the typical middle age or younger adult.

The most common basketball injuries are to the foot ankle and. You experience symptoms ranging from headache dizziness or nausea to feeling confused or out of it. As soon as the basketball hits the ground it will reverse direction since the ground has a lot more inertia than the basketball and head back up with almost the same speed it had right before the collision with the ground.

Injuries to the lower body mostly ankle sprains Injuries to the hand fingers head face and teeth. That means that if you hit your head and the brain swells there will be less room for blood which could mean the brain will become even more injured. It was first year second y.